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DC Emancipation Day
 

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What is Emancipation Day?

The DC Compensated Emancipation Act of 1862 ended slavery in Washington, DC, freed 3,100 individuals, reimbursed those who had legally owned them and offered the newly freed women and men money to emigrate. It is this legislation, and the courage and struggle of those who fought to make it a reality, that we commemorate every April 16, DC Emancipation Day.

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John A. Wilson Building
1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 419, Washington, DC 20004
Phone: (202) 727-6306

"TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE: SOLOMON NORTHRUP'S WASHINGTON"

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Join the DC Office of Public Records and the Office of Tax and Revenue for this second annual DC Emancipation

Day Lunch and Learn event, as they present author, historian, lecturer, researcher and  scholar of the African

diaspora,  C. R. Gibbs. In this fascinating presentation Gibbs will uncover stunning new information about

the institution of slavery in the nation's capital as it existed when Solomon Northrup, a free man, was drugged,

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